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Year Plan

For now, I have a plan of the year. I have a list of every week of the year with the social-emotional curriculum focus, the books I'd like to read during the week, the songs and rhymes that I plan to introduce, the math activity, what I'll do for literacy, for cooking, for craft, the handwriting focus and what I plan to put into the sensory tray. I consider it a draft plan or a list of ideas which I can pick and choose from as the year goes by. I do not stick with the plan but I use it as a list of possibilities. Maybe the books will change, depending on the interests of the children. Maybe they show no interest in one of the books so it won't stand a repeated reading.  Maybe someone will start to talk sing one of the songs I have listed for later in the year. We'd sing it then, no need to wait.  The math activity is based on a sequence of objectives from the engageny curriculum. We use engageny as a resource, not a program that we follow. We use their outcom